Our work
Nine client sites and three of our own brands. Every one is live. Click through for the full story, or open the real site from each case study.
Armstrong Spallumcheen Chamber of Commerce
Association. Member directory rebuilt: 116 businesses, each with its own page instead of one long list.
Fresh Valley Farms
Farm and food brand. Certified organic meat sold online. Shop, pre-order pickups, and farm stays on one site.
Nature Delivered
Local food delivery. A page for each of 51 farms, so every product shows who grew it.
The Health Nest Clinic
Health clinic. Multi-practitioner site with a custom booking page that sends each patient to the right schedule.
Wild & Wise by Pam Dhillon
Retreats and wellness. WordPress rebuilt as a fast static site. 54 pages, nine offerings, and booking through Jane.
Amie Roussel Photography
Portrait photographer. Moved off Showit to WordPress. From zero ranking keywords to top three in Vernon photographer searches.
Famous Photos
Dance photography. Moved off WordPress to Pixieset. Parents now view and order photos in one place.
Armstrong and District Garden Club
Nonprofit garden club. WordPress and Divi rebuilt as a fast static site. Every post, newsletter, and agenda came across.
Vernon Performing Arts Festival
Nonprofit arts festival. Moved off Wix with a new brand. Festival info, student results, and donations on one site.
North Okanagan Minor Hockey Association
Nonprofit minor hockey. One home for registration, schedules, and sponsors. Volunteers post the updates themselves.
Home for the Harvest
Our own brand: gardening. Nearly 1,200 gardening articles and a newsletter with more than 16,000 readers.
Mama’s Must Haves
Our own brand: parenting. Moved from WordPress to a fast static site. 218 posts came across and every old address still works.
Select-A-Plant
Our own brand: plant finder. 60,000 plants. Three quick rounds, and it suggests plants that suit your garden.
What they have in common
Nine sectors. One way of working.
A chamber of commerce, an organic farm, a family clinic, a retreat practice, a portrait photographer, a garden club, an arts festival, and a minor hockey association have almost nothing in common. The work underneath them is the same.
Each build started with a list of the pages the business needed to be found for. Not the pages the old site happened to have. The Chamber needed a page for each of its 116 members across 27 categories, because a member list buried in one long page cannot be found by anybody searching for a single business. The Health Nest needed a page for every practitioner and every service, because patients search for the person or the treatment, not for the clinic.
Fresh Valley Farms needed a shop, a pre-order pickup flow, and farm stays living on one site without confusing anyone. Wild & Wise needed nine kinds of work explained in plain words, and a way in for people who do not know the names yet. Amie Roussel needed a page for each kind of photography she does, because a parent searches for a newborn photographer, not a portfolio. The garden club needed dates that stay right without a volunteer remembering to change them. The festival needed one site for performers, parents, volunteers, and donors, each with a clear way in. Minor hockey needed a site a new volunteer can update every fall without calling us. Every client, its own shape, one way of deciding what the site needs.
Every client owns their own domain, and everything we build is theirs once it is paid for. We look after the hosting, the DNS, and the analytics as part of the hosting and maintenance plan. If a client ever wants to move on, thirty days notice is all it takes, and the site, the files, and the logins go with them.
Each rebuild kept the search results the business had already earned. Old addresses point at their new pages, so years of links and citations still count. Redirects are quiet work, and they are the step that gets missed most often. When they get missed, a business can fall out of search for months.
How a client wants to edit decides what the site is built on. Some want to make their own updates, so we build in a way that lets them. Others would rather hand it to a nerd, and that is what we are here for.
Sectors
What each kind of business needs from a site.
- Law and accounting firms
- A page for every practice area, lawyer bios people read to the end, and a local map result. Most of the search happens on a phone, at a bad moment, and the firm that answers the question wins the call.
- Health and dental clinics
- A page for every service and every practitioner, plus booking that routes patients to the right schedule. Front desk time drops when the site does the sorting.
- Trades and home services
- Service pages written for each town you cover, fast loading on a phone in a truck, and a phone number that is never more than a thumb away.
- Farms and food brands
- A store, a pickup or delivery flow, and the farm story told with real photography. People buy food from people, so the site has to show them.
- Wellness and retreat practices
- A page for each kind of work, written for someone who has never heard the name. Booking and retreat details that answer the question before anyone has to email.
- Associations and chambers
- A directory where each member gets an indexable page, events that are simple to post, and a reason for members to renew.
Questions
Before you ask on the call.
- Why so few?
- Because these are the sites we can stand behind without explaining anything away. Every site here is live and built by us. Six were paid for by clients who are still clients. The garden club, the performing arts festival, and minor hockey are nonprofits we build and look after at no charge. The last three are our own brands, where we test ideas before we use them for clients. A page of forty logos tells you nothing about who did the work.
- Will my site look like these?
- No. Each one is built from that business and its brand, so a farm site and a law firm site have almost nothing in common on the surface. If you already have a brand package from a designer, we build from it. See bring your brand.
- Do you build online stores?
- Yes. Fresh Valley Farms sells certified organic meat online with a pre-order pickup flow. Stores run on Shopify or WooCommerce depending on how you sell and what you already use.
- Can you build a member directory?
- Yes. The Chamber directory holds 116 member businesses across 27 categories, each with its own page. Directories are Flagship work because of the volume, and the quote depends on the number of listings.
- How long until a site like these is live?
- Two to three weeks for a Template site, three to four for a Custom site, and six to eight for a Flagship site, set in the quote. Rush cuts the timeline in half for 50% over the build price.
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